Health Affairs

PEPFAR’s Declining Investment In HIV/AIDS Treatment

Since its inception in 2003, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved millions of lives through providing anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR has been essential in moving overall coverage levels...

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 11:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Spending, Global Health, AIDS

Berwick To Speak AT AHIP Conference

Don Berwick, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will address Implementing Health Care Reform: The Administration’s Priorities, at AHIP’s 2010 Medicare Conference, September 12-14, in Washington, D.C. Health Affairs...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 7:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid

Implementing Reform: Funding And Flexibility For States On Exchanges

As 2011 comes to a close, we draw ever closer to January 1, 2014, the day when the most significant changes wrought by the Affordable Care Act will come into effect. Indeed, we are only weeks away from the halfway point between March, 2010, when the ACA...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2011 8:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, States, Quality, Medicaid, Children

Long Term Care Post Leads HA Blog November Most-Read List

Now that the Obama Administration has suspended implementation of the CLASS Act, what long-term care financing system should take its place? That is the question that Gloria Eldridge and Joanne Lynn address in the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for...

Published Mon, Dec 05 2011 10:18 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Blog, Consumers, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Long-Term Care

Remembering Robert Butler

On July 7, Robert Butler died of leukemia. Butler was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on aging and geriatrics. This post, by William Hazzard, Professor...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 10:28 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Physicians, Chronic Care, Personal Experience, End-of-Life Care, Aging

Reminder: Health Affairs Briefing On Comparative Effectiveness Research

The October issue of Health Affairs focuses on comparative effectiveness research. On October 5, Health Affairs will hold a release briefing for the issue. WHEN: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. WHERE: Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 6:20 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Comparative Effectiveness

Health Reform Briefs: The Minimum-Coverage Requirement And Other Issues

As every reader knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider challenges that have been brought to the constitutionality of two provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by twenty-six states, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and...

Published Sat, Jan 07 2012 7:55 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, States, Coverage

Two Health Affairs Articles Among RWJF’s 2011 Top Five

A belated tip of the hat to two Health Affairs articles included in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s five most influential research articles by RWJF grantees in 2011: Evidence Links Increases In Public Health Spending To Declines In Preventable...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 12:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Spending, Quality, Nurses, Research

What Is An ‘Essential Benefit’?

A central feature of health reform is the state exchanges, through which a variety of plans will be offered. Each of those plans will be required to offer a package of “essential benefits” as defined in the Affordable Care Act. When most people think...

Published Fri, Oct 29 2010 9:21 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Coverage, Innovation

Who Voted And What It Meant

At an October 27 Health Affairs media breakfast, pollsters Celinda Lake, Whit Ayres, and Stan Greenberg discussed how the 2010 electorate was likely to be older and whiter than the 2008 electorate, to the detriment of the Democratic case on the issue...

Published Wed, Nov 03 2010 11:28 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Public Opinion

New Transparency Rules For Health Plans: A Huge Win For Consumers

Editor’s note: See another Health Affairs post on this topic by Tim Jost. How do you shop for health insurance today? For many of us, our employer makes the decision for us. And if there is a choice of health plans, the employer also provides helpful...

Published Fri, Feb 10 2012 5:41 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance

Prevention, Primary Care Effective Against Chronic Disease Around Globe

Worldwide disease prevention programs and greater use of primary care reduce deaths, rates of illness, and costs associated with chronic illness, according to several studies in the December issue of the journal Health Affairs. The articles offer hope...

Published Thu, Dec 09 2010 11:37 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Chronic Care, Global Health

Productivity Still Drives Compensation in High Performing Group Practices

In July, 2009, President Obama visited the Cleveland Clinic and praised its ability to provide hospital care less expensively than some other famous hospitals. This claim was bolstered by a recent study demonstrating that large multispecialty practices...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 8:07 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Payment, Physicians, Innovation

Implementing Health Reform: A Final Rule On Health Insurance Exchanges

On March 12, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services promulgated final regulations governing the establishment of the American Health Benefit Exchanges. The exchanges are at the heart of the Affordable Care Act strategy for making health insurance...

Published Tue, Mar 13 2012 11:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, States, Coverage, Medicaid

Health IT Meaningful Use Mission Creep

Mission creep is the expansion of a project or mission beyond its original goals, often after initial successes. Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to the dangerous path of each success breeding more ambitious attempts, only stopping...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 7:54 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Payment, Health IT, Health Care Costs, Medicare, Patient Safety

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